The staffing system is too rigid.

We have adopted a flexible, coordinating approach rather than a rigid, centralising one.

25148 I am not going to maintain rigid positions on this issue.

The existing directive certainly needs updating, but we must not be too rigid.

In my view, this is rather too rigid and imposes an unnecessary burden on industry.

7219 Indeed, making cover for biometric risks obligatory would be likely to make the system very inflexible.

The electoral situation was particularly tense, not to say violent.

As you can imagine, this was a tense and complicated meeting.

This can only heighten the already tense atmosphere in the region.

Progress is slow due to the tense relations between the ethnic groups of this divided city.